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արդն

արդն

Old Armenian

Noun

արդն • ‎(ardn)

  1. a kind of spear, probably dart, javelin

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “արդն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “արդն”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • de Lagarde, Paul (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, page 167
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1883) Armenische Studien. 1/1. Grundzüge der armenischen Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 11
  • Petersson, Herbert (1916), “Beiträge zur armenischen Wortkunde”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 47, issue 3/4, page 245
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “արդն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, pages 309–310
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959), “rēt-, rōt-, rət-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 866
  • Ałayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʿnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʿyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 31–34
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “արդն”, in Sargsyan, Vahan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, ISBN 978-9939-50-121-5, page 88b

Etymology

Uncertain.

De Lagarde connects with Ancient Greek ἄρδις ‎(árdis, “point of an arrow”). This not accepted by Hübschmann (who also adds the comparison with Old Irish aird ‎(“point, direction”)) and Ačaṙyan because *արտ ‎(*art) would have been expected for Armenian.

Pokorny and J̌ahukyan (with reservation) derive from Proto-Indo-European *ardʰ- ‎(“pole, rod”), with Lithuanian ar̃das ‎(“pole scaffold for drying flax”), ar̃damas ‎(“pole which crosses the sail diagonally”) as cognates, an idea going back to Petersson.

Ačaṙyan rejects all proposals and leaves the origin open.

Ałayan derives with prothetic ա- ‎(a-) from the zero-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *rēt-, *rōt-, *rət-, *reh₁t- ‎(“pole, beam, trunk; beam structure”).

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